tree

A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.

Noun

  1. A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
    • Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
    • Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
    • B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over....

    Hypernyms: plant organism

    Coordinate Terms: shrub bush grass

  2. Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
    • The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
  3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
    • He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
  4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    • He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  5. The structural frame of a saddle.
  6. A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
  7. A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
  8. A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
    • We’ll show it as a tree list.
  9. Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
    • family tree; skill tree
  10. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  11. Marijuana.
    • I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe - 2005, “Shake That”, in Eminem, Nate Dogg (lyrics), Curtain Call: The Hits:
    • Everyday man's on the block / Smoke trees (ah) - 2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]:
    • Whiskey with the team, got it bubblin' / I got trees in my luggage, I got tings out in London / Hope UK, what you say? Fuck is you sayin'? - 2018, “Ace”, in Room 25, performed by Noname ft. Smino & Saba:
  12. A cross or gallows.
    • Tyburn tree
    • The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 5:30:
    • Ste[phano]. Trinculo, keepe a good tongue in your head: If you proue a mutineere, the next Tree:[…] - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *drew- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *trewą Proto-West Germanic *treu Old English trēow Middle English tre English tree PIE word *dóru From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true. Cognates Cognate with Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, and Scanian træ (“tree; timber, wood”), Elfdalian trai (“tree; timber, wood”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree; wood”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “piece of wood”); also Breton derv...

Forms

trees treen tre

Synonyms

sapling seedling tree

Hypernyms

plant graph

Hyponyms

cabbage tree chaste tree cherry tree Cherry Tree Chinese scholar tree clique tree dragon's blood tree hip tree Japanese pagoda tree Joshua tree kanari tree lipstick tree Pear Tree pear tree peartree soap tree AVL tree binary tree caterpillar tree DOM tree join tree junction tree Merkle tree red-black tree

Related

arboreal dendr- firth grove holt hurst shaw thicket wald weald wold wood woods conifer forestland timberland tree farm woodland :Category:Trees

Derived

Aintree Allestree Apple Tree Creek Appletree Flat Apple Tree Flat Armatree Belltrees Cabbage Tree Cabbage Tree Creek Cabbage Tree Island camouflage tree Cherry Tree Hill Cherry Tree Pool Coventry Crabtree Daintree Daventry Diamond Tree fake tree false tree Fern Tree Ferntree Gully Figtree Fig Tree Pocket

Numeral

  1. Pronunciation spelling of three

Verb

  1. To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
    • The dog treed the cat.
    • When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. - 1897, Henry Howard et al., editors, Encyclopaedia of Sport, volume I, London:...
    • "And our dogs used to tree the cats on our property here, and we'd dispatch them." - 2008, Monte Dwyer, Red In The Centre: The Australian Bush Through Urban Eyes, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 146:
  2. To place in a tree.
    • Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
  3. To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
    • to tree a boot
    • Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes. - 1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 14, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 165:
  4. To take refuge in a tree.

Forms

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